Order PASSERIFORMES. 
Family CRACTICIDjE. 
No. 601. 
STREPERA VERSICOLOR. 
GREY CROW-SHRIKE. 
(Plate 490.)* 
Corvus versicolor Latham, Index Omith. Suppl., p. xxv., after May, 1801 : Port Jackson, 
New South Wales, based on Watling Painting No. 60. 
Corvus versicolor Latham, Index Ornith. Suppl., p. xxv., 1801. 
Variable Crow Latham, Gen. Synops. Birds, Suppl. II., p. 117, 1801. 
Cracticus cuneicaudatus Vieillot, Nouv. Diet. d’Hist. Nat., nouv. ed., Vol. V., p. 356, Dec. 14th, 
1816 : “ Australasia ”=New South Wales. 
Barita anaphonesis (sic) Temminck et Laugier, Planch. Color. d’Ois., 46 e livr. (Vol. III., 
text to Barita, pi. 273), May 22nd, 1824 : New South Wales. 
Barita griseus Quoy et Gaimard, Froriep’s Notizen, Bd. 12, No. 253, col. 166, Dec. 1825 : 
Port Jackson, New South Wales ; id., Ann. Sci. Nat. Paris, Vol. 5, p. 484, “ 1825 ” ; 
id., Voy. de l’Uranie and Physicienne, Zool. Add., p. 711, June 14th, 1826. 
Corvus fuliginosus Brehm, Isis, 1845, heft 5, col. 357, May : New South Wales. 
Strepera anaphonensis Gould, Birds Austr., pt. xxxiii. (Vol. II., pi. 45), Dec. 1st, 1848 ; 
id., Handb. Birds Austr., Vol. I., p. 173, 1865 ; Ramsay, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 
1875, p. 584, 1876 (Q.) ; id., Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. II., p. 180, 1878. 
Strepera cinerea Strickland, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Vol. XI., p. 335, May 1st, 1843, ex Gould 
MS. ; new name for Corvus versicolor Latham. 
Strepera versicolor Strickland, ib. ; Gray, Genera Birds, Vol. II., p. 302, 1846 ; Sharpe, 
Hist. Coll. Nat. Hist. Brit. Mus., Vol. II., p. 119, 1906; Mathews, Handl. Birds 
Austral., p. 108, 1908 ; Maddison, Emu, Vol. IX., p. 255, 1910 (Vic.) ; Cleland, ib., 
Vol. XI., p. 94, 1911 (Food). 
Strepera arguta Gould, Proc. Zool. Soc. (Lond.), 1846, p. 19, May : Tasmania ; id., Birds 
Austr., pt. xxv., Vol. II., pi. 44, Dec. 1st, 1846 ; id., Handb. Birds Austr., Vol. I, 
p. 171, 1865 ; Sharpe, Cat. Birds Brit. Mus., Vol. III., p. 59, 1877 ; Ramsay, Proc. 
Linn. Soc. N.S.W., Vol. II., p. 180, 1878 ; Legge, Papers Proc. Roy. Soc. Tasm., 
1886, p. 239, 1887 ; Ramsay, Tab. List Austr. Birds, p. 4, 1888 ; Hall, Key Birds 
Austr., p. 8, 1899 ; Campbell, Nests and Eggs Austr. Birds, Vol. I., p. 59, 1901 ; 
North, Austr. Mus. Spec. Cat. No. 1, Vol. I., p. 10, 1902 ; McClymont, Emu, Vol. II., 
p. 98, 1902 ; A. G. Campbell, ib., Vol. IV., pp. 111-118, 1905 ; Mellor, ib., Vol. VI., 
p. 169, 1907 ; Fletcher, ib., Vol. VII., p. 23, 1907 ; Mathews, Handl. Birds Austral., 
p. 107, 1908 ; Littler, Handb. Birds Tasm., p. 13, 1910 ; Thompson, Emu, Vol. XI., 
* This Plate is lettered Neostrepera versicolor. 
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